Working with contacts

- [Instructor] Another nice time saver…that's built into SharePoint if you plan on…creating a list that's going to contain…contact information is the contacts template.…Now we could create a custom list and…add all of the columns necessary…to track people and their information,…but we can save a lot of time and…a lot of effort by getting a good…head start with the contacts template,…and then there are some shortcuts…that'll allow us to tie into things…like Microsoft Outlook, for example.…So here we are on our home site…of my training site here.…I'm going to go up to the Site Actions…and I'm going to click on Create.…

Now this is going to be a list but it's…going to be for tracking contacts information,…so I'm going to go to the Communications…heading here and down to Contacts.…So all I need to do is fill in the name,…an optional description, and whether or not…I want this to show up on the quick launch area.…I'm going to call this, and because this…going to act kind of like the training site,…I'm going to type in Employee List,…

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11/6/2007

SharePoint 2007 Essential Training covers each aspect of using both Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Instructor David Rivers takes viewers through the whole process, from smart content management to publishing collaborative projects and documents online. Along the way, he teaches how to create and organize sites; manage content; control security levels; understand simple and complex searches; and create and manage team sites, blogs, and meeting workspaces.